1819 in art

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1819 in art

Events in the year 1819 in art.

Events

3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819 opens at Somerset House in London
25 August to 30 September – Paris Salon of 1819.
November – The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.^[1]
unknown date – The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.^[2]

Works

Washington Allston – The Flight of Florimell
John Constable – The Gathering Storm
Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
Francisco Goya
- The Madhouse
- Portrait of Juan Antonio Cuervo
- A Procession of Flagellants
- A Village Bullfight
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
- Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
- Niccolò Paganini
Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Generosity of Alexander
Thomas Lawrence
- Portrait of Archduke Charles
- Portrait of Francis I of Austria
- Portrait of Napoleon II
- Portrait of Prince Schwarzenberg
- Portrait of Pope Pius VII
- Portrait of Selina Meade
Louis-François Lejeune – Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
Samuel Morse – Portrait of James Monroe
Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Dream of Happiness
Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
Pierre Révoil – Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Post Office
Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
J. M. W. Turner
- England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday
- Entrance of the Meuse
Horace Vernet
- Massacre of the Mamelukes
- The Dog of the Regiment Wounded
- The Wounded Trumpeter

Births

January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)^[3]
February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)^[4]
February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875)
February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904)
March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869)^[5]
June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)^[6]
June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)^[7]
August 11 – Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)^[8]
June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916)
September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856)
December 6 – Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857)^[9]
December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895)
date unknown – Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904)

Deaths

January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher (born 1779)^[10]
February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
May 2 – Mary Moser, English painter (born 1744)
May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
May 19 – Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)^[11]
May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)^[12]
July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
August – Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)^[13]
August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
August 27 – John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
October 8 – William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller (born 1740)^[14]
November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)^[15]
November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
date unknown
- Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
- Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
- Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste (born 1776)

References

↑ Mar. Sánchez Ramón (2001). Museo Del Prado: Short Guide. Aldeasa. p. 2. ISBN 9788480032551.
↑ Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The Society. 1993. p. 94.
↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Frith, William Powell" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
↑ Hewison, Robert. "Ruskin, John (1819–1900)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24291. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Taylor, Roger (October 2006). "Fenton, Roger (1819–1869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
↑ Frantz, Henri (1911). "Courbet, Gustave" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 318–319.
↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gray, Henry Peters". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 391.
↑ National Gallery of Art. "Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)". Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ Clarke, Frances (2009). "Crowley, Nicholas Joseph". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Zwinger, Gustav Philipp". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
↑ The Scotish Musical Museum: Consisting of Upwards of Six Hundred Songs, with Proper Basses for the Pianoforte. W. Blackwood and sons. 1839. pp. 196.
↑ The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1819. p. 704.
↑ Elogio storico del cavaliere Paolo Borroni; pittor Vogherese. Motta. 1820. pp. 20–.
↑ James Rush (1973). The Ingenious Beilbys. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 127.
↑ "Bird, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2443. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] Mar. Sánchez Ramón (2001). Museo Del Prado: Short Guide. Aldeasa. p. 2. ISBN 9788480032551.

[2] Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The Society. 1993. p. 94.

[3] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Frith, William Powell" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[4] Hewison, Robert. "Ruskin, John (1819–1900)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24291. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[5] Taylor, Roger (October 2006). "Fenton, Roger (1819–1869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

[6] Frantz, Henri (1911). "Courbet, Gustave" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 318–319.

[7] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gray, Henry Peters". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 391.

[8] National Gallery of Art. "Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)". Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[9] Clarke, Frances (2009). "Crowley, Nicholas Joseph". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2023-01-12.

[10] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Zwinger, Gustav Philipp". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

[11] The Scotish Musical Museum: Consisting of Upwards of Six Hundred Songs, with Proper Basses for the Pianoforte. W. Blackwood and sons. 1839. pp. 196.

[12] The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1819. p. 704.

[13] Elogio storico del cavaliere Paolo Borroni; pittor Vogherese. Motta. 1820. pp. 20–.

[14] James Rush (1973). The Ingenious Beilbys. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 127.

[15] "Bird, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2443. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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